Jacobsen vice president SGI ISV programmeMountain View 21 August 2000 Kenneth P. Jacobsen, Ph.D., 49, has been appointed vice president of ISV Programs at SGI. He will report directly to Kenneth Coleman, executive vice president, SGI. Jacobsen will be responsible for all ISV (independent software vendor) partner programs, ISV technical support, and horizontal applications marketing.
Jacobsen joined SGI in 1993 as the manager of Supercomputer Applications, where
he initiated SGI's penetration into two new markets: operations research and
bioinformatics. He also bootstrapped ISV partnership efforts to create a strong
presence for SGI in these scientific computation markets and shaped an
outstanding technical support team. Most recently, Jacobsen served as senior
director of Computer Applications Engineering. His goal throughout has been to
maximize the execution performance of ISV applications on SGI hardware and to
achieve the industry's leading performance benchmarks for SGI's ISVs and
customers.
Before joining SGI, Jacobsen established a strong record of accomplishment
across a range of high-profile high-technology companies. His experience
includes work on a variety of architectures in several different computational
domains. These activities have included work with SIMD MPP, wide word, vector,
RISC and CISC architectures.
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